Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social
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Emeritus Professor of European Studies, King's College London. I write mainly about capitalism and its great adversary Marxism. @seminarmarx
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Joined June 2011
My book The New Age of Catastrophe is published this month by Polity.
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The New Age of Catastrophe, The world is entering a new age of catastrophe
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Looks like the partition of Gaza is underway. https://t.co/SCJ6IxlPEE US and Israel’s controversial plan to build ‘New Gaza’ sparks alarm
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Regional leaders fear proposal to rebuild half of enclave under Israeli control will lead to long-term partition
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https://t.co/SCJ6IxlPEE US and Israel’s controversial plan to build ‘New Gaza’ sparks alarm
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Regional leaders fear proposal to rebuild half of enclave under Israeli control will lead to long-term partition
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Looks like the partition of Gaza is under way.
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Mamdani’s victory speech compared to Rivera’s ‘Man at the Crossroads’.
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A new statue of Emperor Valerian kneeling before Sassanian king, Shapur 1st, is unveiled in Tehran. This stuff is cool. Build one of Alfred defeating Guthrum at Edington. Much more fun than some random civil servant or slave trader.
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https://t.co/lvxvga68pt Out of Hitler’s Shadow by Tobias Straumann — from write-off to take-off
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The historian’s account of German debt and postwar settlement is a vivid story of risk, courage — and political contingency
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Sounds like an interesting book, on how West Germany was let off its debt in 1953. It should be especially interesting to anyone from Greece.
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"For the first time in a while, Democrats now think they can see a pathway out of the gloom. Big victory margins are by far the best guardrail against midterm skullduggery." My column.
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One thing is for sure: the opening act of the US president’s second term is over
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Wow, this is huge. Looks like the Dutch are ready to "unseize" Nexperia and give control of the company back to its Chinese owner. Which means, effectively, that China won. There was, after all, zero rational for the seizure anymore. As a reminder, the Dutch seized Nexperia
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🚨 Prize winner 🚨 The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize committee is delighted to announce that Bruno Leipold’s “Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought” has been awarded this year’s prize 🎉 @BrunoLeipold
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Truly and deeply honoured
🚨 Prize winner 🚨 The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize committee is delighted to announce that Bruno Leipold’s “Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought” has been awarded this year’s prize 🎉 @BrunoLeipold
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There is no ceasefire. It's a lie. More than 200 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli government since Trump claimed a ceasefire was achieved. The Israeli government never even stopped bombing Lebanon. They are still committing war crimes. https://t.co/3YfICafKv7
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These were the live updates on Israel's war on Gaza for Thursday November 6, 2025.
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Edward Yang on the impact of watching Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972): "I found a job in Seattle at a research laboratory that contracted to do classified defense projects in microcomputers. I was among the first generation of designers and applicators for microcomputers and
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@SDegidon @SonyaShaykhoun @ooana Dude, there is no Shariah law. There's not going to be any Shariah law. Mamdani is a Lefty theater kid. That girl is mocking that nonsense, and rightly so.
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The Golden Throne of Queen Hetepheres, consort of Pharaoh Snefru and mother of Pharaoh Khufu, dates to Egypt’s 4th Dynasty (2551–2528 BC). Discovered in Giza, in tomb G 7000 X, this masterpiece stands as one of the Old Kingdom’s most refined royal artifacts. Hetepheres’ son Khufu
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The world is tilting towards competition over the southern western hemisphere because that is where there is scope for growth of all of oil production, energy-transition metal extraction, and rare earth mining. https://t.co/wE7jEI9l7M
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$465mn loan will help Serra Verde expand output as global processing capacity increases
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